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' G. TRUBEL. GRADUATEDINSPBGTION SASH SECTION FOR MEASURING CANS.

No. 371,996. Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

UNTTED STATES PATENT FFltllE GEORGE TBUBEL, OF MAGOMB, ILLINOIS.

GRADUATED iNSPECTlON SASH-SECTION FOR MEASURING CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,996, dated October 25, 1887.

Serial No. 224,676. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE TRUBEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Macomb,

in the county of McDouough and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Graduated Inspection Sash- Sections for Oil-Cans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing detached the several parts which, in the. main, comprise my graduated inspection sash-section for oil-cans; Fig. 2, a transverse section in the line as x of Fig. 1, the glass which admits of an inspection of the contents of the can when complete be ing removed; Fig. 3, a transverse section-in the line a: w of Fig. 1, the glass which admits of an inspection of the contents of the can when complete being insertedin place therein; and Fig. 4, an enlarged haltsectional view in the line 00 x of Fig. 1, showing the inspection-glass in proper position in the sash-section, and therein secured,the sash-section being then in a completed state and ready to be permanently attached and made a part of the oil-can shown in elevation in Fig. 5.

By my invention of a sash-section for oilcans, which in the process of the manufacture of such cans becomes a fixed portion thereof when the can is complete and ready for market, the manufacture is greatly facilitated,while at the same time a superior utility is developed and a can produced which meets with ready sale in the market.

One main object of my invention is to afi'ord an inspection of the contents of the can, whereby the height of the oil in the can may be known when filling the same, as well as the amount of oil in the can at any desired time; and for the purpose above 'set forth I construct a graduated inspection sash-section for oil-cans, which may be made a fixed integral portion of an oil-can in the process of making such cans, but which section constitutes a separate manufacture from the body of the can to which'it is thereafter to be permanently attached and constitute a part.

In the drawings, A indicates the outer inclosing sash-frame portion of my improved sash-section, the same having been stamped, from tin or other proper sheet metal, into the form as shown, and of a length equal to the height of the body of the oil-can to which it is intended to be applied, and form a part when the can is completed and ready for use, the sash-frame A (shown in Fig. 1) in the main exposing to View its inner configuration. Thisframe A has at either end plain metal portions b b, the upper one, 0, of which is not shown in Fig. 1, but is broken away in order to expose the rounded portion 0 beneath, which part c is in oblong form and extends longitudinally between I) and b, as shown, and on either-side of the part c lateral portions, as d, extend outwardly, having their edges hooked, as at 0 in order to form a lap with the body metal of the can to which the said section is to be applied, while an inward lateral seat or ledge, as e, projects at right angles from the part c all around a central longitudinal aperture, a, in the sash-frame A, as shown. Thus constructed,the part 0 forms an inclosing-wall to receive an inner inspection sash-frame, O, which is made to exactly fit within the inclosing-wall c of the sash-frame A when seated therein, as shown in Fig. 4, and this sashframe 0, made also with a wall, 0, seat e, and

opening a, is, save that it is a little smaller,

the exact counterpart oftlle wall 0, seat 6, and opening or, (shown in sash-frame A in said Fig. 1,) in order that it may be seated snugly with in the sash-frame A, as signified in Fig. 4, after the inspectionglass B has been placed within the wall 0 of said frame A.

The parts A B O are put together and maintained in fixed juxtaposition as follows: First, the inner face of seat 6 and inner face of the wall a of the sashframe A are covered with a thin coat of oil-proof flexible cement, ff. The inspectionglass B is then placed and pressed down upon the cement f, the edge of the glass impinging against the cement f, as shown in Fig. 4. This done, the inspectionglass B is covered with a thin coat of the oilproof flexible cement, as at f all around on top of that surface edge of the glass B which is directlyovcr the seat 0 of the sash-frame A, as indicated in Fig. 4. The inspection sash-frame O is now placed within the outer frame, A, and pressed down snugly upon the oil-proof flexible cement f after which the entire upper edge, 9, of the sash G is soldered to the entire angular edge g of the outer sash, A, by solder i, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4; and this being done, the outer face of the seat e of the outer sash-frame, A, is then provided with a scale, R, to indicate the height and quantity of oil in a can, after my graduated sash-section has been applied to an oil-can, as indicated in Fig. 5; and this having been done, my sash-section for oil-cans is complete.

To apply my sash-section to an oil-can, as seen in Fig. 5, the hooked edges 0 c of the sash-section A are made to engage with the lapping or hooked edges along the body of the can, and the same are properly united or soldered together, thus forming united portions D D of metal from top to bottom, as shown; and to such united portions or laps I then solder the handle E, said united laps thus affording a resistance against the strain which falls upon the body metal of that class of oilcans where the handle, as E, is soldered tothe thin tin which usually composes the body portion of such cans.

Thus constructing a sash-section for oileans, as a manufacture independent of the can to which it is afterward to be applied, not only simplifiesbutfacilitates the manufacture; and

' applying the sash O, as constructed, within curing the same against leakage may be, as

hereinabove described for the inspection-glass B,- applied to the body of the can.

What I claim is 1. The frame 0, forming ledge e and wall 0, in combination with the can provided with glass B, and with sash-frame A, formed with ledge 0 and wall 0, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The separate oil-can sash-section A,made of a length equal to the body of'the oil-can, adapted to form a segmental section of the body of the can, and provided with hooked or lapped edges 0 an inspection-aperture, a, wall 0, and ledge e, and also having aglass, B, secured in it by means of a cemented and soldered frame, 0, formed with an inspection aperture, a, a wall, a, and ledge e, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the metal portion of the oil-can, of the lower inspection-glass,

B, and the upper inspection-glass, m, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE TRUBEL. WVitnesses:

D. A. HERLooKER, THOMAS I. SoRrnR. 

